"Handsome! We went to the island to defend like last time! In this way, the officers and soldiers will have no advantage in warships! Sensing the drop in ship's speed, the leader suggested in a panic.

For his subordinates, Li Haozi was very disappointed, and explained pretending to be caring: "Hurry up and withdraw!" The surrounding islands and reefs are too small and uninhabited to hide, no better than our nests, and then the officers and soldiers will only be allowed to destroy our docked ships, and we will only starve to death. ”

The leader suddenly realized and scratched his head in embarrassment.

People often have a herd mentality, Li Haozi also discovered this, he had already lowered the flag of the big marshal in advance, and threw away the conspicuous decoration on the ship, deliberately avoiding the direction of the ship, and sure enough, the surrounding officers and military ships gave up a few small targets scattered on his side, and pursued most of them.

"Brother! I am rich! Where are you? Why don't you join Cao Longjiang with me! The dragon will know that our nature is not bad, and he will accept us and promise to reuse you! ”

A three-masted ship passing not far away suddenly heard the voice of his cousin Li Fugui, and the subordinates on the ship suddenly focused on Li Haozi.

Blessing is unparalleled, and disaster is not a one-way street, at this time, on a fishing boat next to him, there was an angry voice of Ji Dashuai with yellow teeth

"Wang Badan! Li Haozi, you have long been conspiring with the official army! No wonder the army of 50,000 will be defeated so strangely! Kill this traitor! ”

The impulsive Ji Dashuai killed him, Li Haozi helplessly commanded a counterattack, and the constant persuasion in his mouth was a misunderstanding, but four thousand subordinates were defeated, and Ji Dashuai, who could only escape alone, was too angry in his heart and decided that it was him.

The civil battle between the two pirate ships attracted the attention of the wrinkling waves next to him, and Li Haozi and Ji Dashuai, who were still fighting, were arrested.

There are too many pirate fishing boats, and they are in a hurry, they have no fighting spirit, and the sailors are tired, and they are far away from the nest or the coast, and they want to escape at night, but it is in the morning, and it is too dark.

At this time, the sailing fleet of the Cao army, which took advantage of the favorable time and place, fully demonstrated its advantages, and the sailing ships without manpower pursued all the way under the control of the Cao army, and the surrendered personnel shouted at the bow of the ship, and if they did not surrender, they would directly hit it.

A large number of pirates were captured, but those who escaped were still too few to cover everything because of the lack of warships and manpower.

The three-masted ship with the head of a giant beast, with its dirty face and the wrinkled waves of giant panda eyes, looked at the 50,000 pirates scattered in all directions, laughed unceremoniously and rampantly, and pointed at the pirates.

Zhao Shi, who also had panda eyes, also looked happy.

Rendezvous with the fleet.

Wu Peng looked at Bian Xi of Wu Yong, Zhang Bao of caution, and Crazy Fu Tao, these three generals with very different personalities, especially Fu Tao, who is usually debauched.

involuntarily remembered his former boss Wang Xiao, and a heartfelt smile appeared on Wu Peng's face.

The sea master triumphed, and the people who heard the news occupied the wharf, especially the nearby fishermen, who greeted them gratefully.

When the "Cao" flag on the high mast was raised from the sea level, the people let out bursts of cheers!

Thirty ships at the time of departure, and one or two thousand of them when they returned, and the pirates who had been confiscated of their weapons disembarked in a long line, and soon covered the entire wharf, and the people who greeted them had to retreat and give way.

"One thousand, two thousand......"

In the crowd, a man dressed as an ordinary person, but with fair skin and elegant skin, stood on a mound and counted the prisoners, the more surprised he became, with an expression of heaven's curse, and spit out a number: "More than 30,000!" ”

In a panic, he rolled straight down the mound.

"Are you okay?" The simple people around hurriedly stepped forward to help, and the elegant man just got up, shook his disgusted arm, and ran out of the crowd, looking like he had lost his soul.

"Cao Long will win! The sea master will win! Wuxian Temple will win! ”

The people shouted happily as they looked at the captives of the pirates, who were more captives than themselves, and the people exploded when the crumpled giant beast ship came.

The largest elephant on land is just an elephant, and the people have never seen these huge heads several feet high, and they all fell to the ground, calling ghosts, dragons, and gods.

Cao Jun stared at the giant beast even more, but kept quiet under the habit of discipline, if it weren't for standing on the bow of his own sea ship, I am afraid that no matter how strict the discipline is, it would not be able to maintain.

Even Cao Xuan couldn't help but look at it a few more times, and when he recognized it as a whale head, his face showed an expression of sudden realization.

Fu Tao came to Cao Xing's side, offered a bucket-sized light black wax with his hands like a treasure, and said proudly: "Fifty-three catties!" ”

Smelling the strong fishy smell it emitted, as well as its huge size, Cao Xing couldn't help but be overjoyed, and praised loudly: "Good job!" ”

In the crowd, only a few parties usually know about Cao Xing's restraint of the troops, not the people's stitches, sympathy for the people's feelings, and relief for the displaced people;

Even Cao Xing proposed to Huangfu Song to reduce the taxes of Jizhou for one year when the whole army was deliberating, which was not mentioned by Cao Xing in history, and Huangfu Song would do it and did it;

There are also good deeds such as Wu Peng acting as the county commander to go to the countryside to help the poor, punish rape and eliminate evil, open porridge and make porridge.

At this moment, among this group of people who came spontaneously from all over the surrounding areas and reached tens of thousands of people, it spread and became a living advertisement, publicizing it everywhere, so that Cao Xing and Wu Peng completely penetrated into the hearts of people along the coast of Canghai.

Cao Xing was busy dealing with the problem of more than 30,000 captives, as well as reporting to the imperial court.

After two or three months of promulgating the talent search order, it suddenly broke the routine of the door, and a large number of people of all colors came to join.

There are dozens of literati students, and the representative is Chen Yang from the famous Yingchuan Chen family.

There are more than 100 businessmen and craftsmen who can write and calculate, and the representative is Su Shuang, a horse merchant in Zhongshan.

There are more warriors and rangers, calling friends and friends, coming in groups, and the leaders brought here alone are more than three hundred, the representative is Cai Yang, the sword king of the northern land, and Qin Shao, who came hundreds of miles away.

Qin Shao, a native of Peiguo County, when Cao Xing passed through Peiguo with Huangfu Song in Yuzhou to crusade against the Yellow Turban, he remembered that Peiguo was a place of personal excellence.

A county came out, Cao Cao's family, Xiahoudun's family, Xu Zhu, Liu Dai, Shi Lian, Ding Mi, Wen Yang, Hua Tuo, etc., dozens of celebrities.

At that time, Cao Xing deliberately went to look for and visit these people, or he didn't find them, and the people who were easy to find were all strong and powerful scholars, and they all took advantage of the excitement and returned with defeat, but they didn't forget to leave goodwill and make friends with one or two.

Qin Shao, who was born as a farmer, was the one he met by chance at that time and was helped by Cao Xing.

The reason why he helped him at that time was not because of how talented he was, but because Cao Xing remembered that he had a great son.